>
> > From: Russell Van Tassell
> > Is this a Solaris machine, by chance? (ie. I've seen the same thing on
> > my box(es) and have heard that others have seen the same, but no posted
> > solutions... yet) It's a problem somewhere in hostmon, I think (from
> > memory, so don't shoot me)
>
> That's probably one of *many* problems with hostmon.
> For me, it's brittle like a potato chip under Sol, AIX
> and Linux. I can't even do
> while true; do
> telnet <hostmon_host> hostmon
> sleep 5
> done
> without it crashing!
>
> In other words, imo, using hostmon as a primary method
> of notifiction about outages is unwise.
>
I'm not saying that. I think that its doing its job
DETECTING them, but not REPORTING them fully. No where is the return
code from eventlog ever checked!
>
> I suspect using hostmon with rsh comm and ssh might be
> more stable. Can anyone comment about this idea?
>
NEVER a problem for us (BSDI/Solaris). I do make a mod
which makes it check for the daemon EVERY loop though, since it'd
go away for a while then come back. But its more the eventlog.
This caused a MAJOR problem and even more MAJOR embarassment.
Tuc/TTSG